The Bachelor | |
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Season 22 | |
Starring | Arie Luyendyk Jr. |
Presented by | Chris Harrison |
No. of contestants | 29 |
Winner | Becca Kufrin |
Runner-up | Lauren Burnham |
No. of episodes | 12 (including 2 specials) |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | January 1 – March 6, 2018 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | September 20 – November 17, 2017 |
Season chronology | |
The twenty-second season of The Bachelor premiered on January 1, 2018. This season features 36-year-old Arie Luyendyk Jr., a real estate agent and race car driver from Scottsdale, Arizona. [1] [2] Luyendyk was the runner-up on the eighth season of The Bachelorette featuring Emily Maynard.
The season concluded on March 5, 2018, with Luyendyk choosing to propose to 27-year-old publicist Becca Kufrin. [3] However, Luyendyk subsequently ended his engagement with Kufrin and admitted that he was still in love with runner-up Lauren Burnham, and he proposed to Burnham on the live After the Final Rose special. They married in January 2019, and are currently living in Phoenix, Arizona with their three children (Alessi, Lux, and Senna). [4]
On September 7, 2017, during Good Morning America , Luyendyk was announced as the next Bachelor over The Bachelorette season 13 runner-up Peter Kraus, who was the fan favorite choice for the role. [5]
Notable contestants include Miss Massachusetts USA 2014 and Miss USA 2014 competitor Caroline Lunny, and Miami Dolphins Cheerleader Bibiana Julian. [6]
This season traveled to Lake Tahoe; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Paris, France; Tuscany, Italy and Peru. Appearances for this season included racing driver Robby Gordon, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling wrestlers Ursula Hayden and Angelina Altishin, wrestler and The Bachelorette contestant Kenny King, singer/songwriter Connor Duermit, country band Lanco, indie singer and songwriter Tenille Arts and French singer Pauline Paris. [7]
This season began with 29 contestants. [8]
Name | Age | Hometown | Occupation | Outcome | Place | Ref |
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Becca Kufrin [9] | 27 | Prior Lake, Minnesota | Publicist | Winner | 1 | [10] |
Lauren Burnham [11] | 25 | Virginia Beach, Virginia | Technology Salesperson | Runner-up | 2 | |
Kendall Long [12] | 26 | Santa Clarita, California | Creative Director | Week 9 | 3 | [13] |
Tia Booth [14] | 26 | Weiner, Arkansas | Physical Therapist | Week 8 | 4 | [15] |
Bekah Martinez [12] [16] | 22 | Clovis, California | Nanny | Week 7 | 5 | [17] |
Seinne Fleming [12] [18] | 27 | Long Beach, California | Commercial Real Estate Agent | 6 | ||
Jacqueline Trumbull [19] | 26 | Morgantown, West Virginia | Research Coordinator | 7 (quit) | ||
Chelsea Roy [12] [20] [21] | 29 | South Portland, Maine | Real Estate Executive Assistant | Week 6 | 8–9 | [22] |
Jenna Cooper [23] [24] | 28 | Upland, Indiana | Social Media Manager | |||
Krystal Nielson [25] | 29 | Missoula, Montana | Fitness Coach | 10 | ||
Ashley Luebke [6] | 25 | West Palm Beach, Florida | Real Estate Agent | Week 5 | 11–13 | [26] |
Maquel Cooper [27] | 23 | American Fork, Utah | Photographer | |||
Marikh Mathias [28] | 27 | Salt Lake City, Utah | Restaurant Owner | |||
Brittany Taylor [29] | 30 | Belton, South Carolina | Tech Recruiter | Week 4 | 14–15 | [30] |
Caroline Lunny [6] [31] | 26 | Holliston, Massachusetts | Realtor | |||
Maquel Cooper | (Returned to competition) | [lower-alpha 1] | ||||
Bibiana Julian [12] [6] | 30 | Miami, Florida | Executive Assistant | Week 3 | 16 | [32] |
Annaliese Puccini [33] | 32 | San Mateo, California | Event Designer | 17 | ||
Lauren Schleyer [11] | 31 | Dallas, Texas | Social Media Manager | 18 | ||
Jennifer "Jenny" Delaney [34] | 25 | Northbrook, Illinois | Graphic Designer | Week 2 | 19–21 | [35] |
Lauren Griffin [23] | 26 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Executive Recruiter | |||
Valerie Biles | 26 | Nashville, Tennessee | Server | |||
Alison "Ali" Harrington [11] | 27 | Lawton, Oklahoma | Personal Stylist | Week 1 | 22–29 | [36] |
Amber Wilkerson | 29 | Denver, Colorado | Business Owner | |||
Brianna "Bri" Amaranthus [37] | 25 | Grants Pass, Oregon | Sports Reporter | |||
Brittane Johnson | 27 | San Diego, California | Marketing Manager | |||
Jessica Carroll [38] | 26 | Calgary, Alberta | Television Host | |||
Lauren Jarreau [39] [40] | 33 | New Roads, Louisiana | Recent Master's Graduate | |||
D'Nysha "Nysha" Norris [29] | 30 | Anderson, South Carolina | Orthopedic Nurse | |||
Olivia Goethals [34] | 23 | Geneseo, Illinois | Marketing Associate | |||
Becca Kufrin was chosen as the lead of season 14 of The Bachelorette , while Tia Booth, Seinne Fleming, Kendall Long, Caroline Lunny and Bekah Martinez made appearances in two episodes as well. [41]
Julian returned for the fifth season of Bachelor in Paradise, along with Annaliese Puccini, Chelsea Roy, Kendall Long, Krystal Nielson, Nysha Norris, Tia Booth, Jenna Cooper, Caroline Lunny, Jacqueline Trumbull, and Olivia Goethals. Julian, Lunny, Norris, and Trumbull were eliminated in week 2. Roy was eliminated in week 4. Booth split from Colton Underwood, in week 4. Long split from Joe Amabile in week 5 but, reunited with him outside of Paradise. Goethals split from John Graham in week 6. Puccini left Paradise in a relationship with Kamil Nicalek, while Cooper and Nielson ended the season engaged to Jordan Kimball and Chris Randone, respectively.
Puccini and Julian returned for the sixth season of Bachelor in Paradise . Both were eliminated in week 1.
Long and Booth returned for season 7 alongside Kufrin. Long quit in week 4. Kufrin split from Thomas Jacobs in week 6, although they later got back together. Booth split from Aaron Clancy in week 6.
Lunny appeared in the second season of Bachelor in Paradise Australia . She left the show in week 7 to pursue a relationship with fellow US contestant, Alex Bordyukov, who was also competing on that season. However, the pair are no longer together.
Bibiana Julian and Lauren Griffin returned for The Bachelor Winter Games under Team USA. Griffin was eliminated in week 1. Julian quit in week 4.
Order | Bachelorettes | Week | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
1 | Caroline | Chelsea | Becca K. | Bekah M. | Seinne | Chelsea | Lauren B. | Becca K. | Becca K. | Lauren B. | Becca K. |
2 | Chelsea | Becca K. | Krystal | Chelsea | Tia | Lauren B. | Bekah M. | Lauren B. | Lauren B. | Becca K. | Lauren B. |
3 | Kendall | Marikh | Seinne | Caroline | Bekah M. | Tia | Kendall | Kendall | Kendall | Kendall | |
4 | Seinne | Kendall | Maquel | Kendall | Lauren B. | Bekah M. | Jacqueline | Tia | Tia | ||
5 | Tia | Lauren G. | Jacqueline | Ashley | Kendall | Seinne | Tia | Bekah M. | |||
6 | Bibiana | Krystal | Bekah M. | Lauren B. | Ashley | Kendall | Seinne | Seinne | |||
7 | Bri | Bekah M. | Jenna | Brittany T. | Becca K. | Becca K. | Becca K. | Jacqueline | |||
8 | Jenny | Lauren S. | Chelsea | Becca K. | Chelsea | Jacqueline | Chelsea Jenna | ||||
9 | Brittane J. | Seinne | Lauren S. | Seinne | Jenna | Jenna | |||||
10 | Jacqueline | Caroline | Tia | Krystal | Jacqueline | Krystal | Krystal | ||||
11 | Krystal | Brittany T. | Annaliese | Tia | Marikh | Ashley Maquel Marikh | |||||
12 | Nysha | Bibiana | Lauren B. | Maquel | Krystal | ||||||
13 | Valerie | Annaliese | Kendall | Jenna | Brittany T. Caroline | ||||||
14 | Bekah M. | Jenna | Brittany T. | Jacqueline | |||||||
15 | Jenna | Valerie | Ashley | Marikh | Maquel | ||||||
16 | Jessica | Jacqueline | Marikh | Bibiana | |||||||
17 | Marikh | Jenny | Caroline | Annaliese | |||||||
18 | Olivia | Lauren B. | Bibiana | Lauren S. | |||||||
19 | Becca K. | Ashley | Jenny Lauren G. Valerie | ||||||||
20 | Lauren S. | Tia | |||||||||
21 | Lauren J. | Maquel | |||||||||
22 | Lauren B. | Ali Amber Bri Brittane J. Jessica Lauren J. Nysha Olivia | |||||||||
23 | Lauren G. | ||||||||||
24 | Ashley | ||||||||||
25 | Brittany T. | ||||||||||
26 | Amber | ||||||||||
27 | Ali | ||||||||||
28 | Annaliese | ||||||||||
29 | Maquel |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) | Rating/share (18–49) |
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216 | 1 | "Week 1: Season Premiere" | January 1, 2018 | 2201 | 5.48 [42] | 1.5/5 [42] |
217 | 2 | "Week 2" | January 8, 2018 | 2202 | 5.56 [43] | 1.4/5 [43] |
218 | 3 | "Week 3" | January 15, 2018 | 2203 | 6.61 [44] | 1.8/6 [44] |
219 | 4 | "Week 4: Lake Tahoe" | January 22, 2018 | 2204 | 6.38 [45] | 1.8/6 [45] |
220 | 5 | "Week 5: Fort Lauderdale" | January 29, 2018 | 2205 | 6.36 [46] | 1.7/6 [46] |
221 | 6 | "Week 6: Paris, France" | February 5, 2018 | 2206 | 6.82 [47] | 1.8/7 [47] |
222 | 7 | "Week 7: Tuscany, Italy" | February 12, 2018 [lower-alpha 2] | 2207 | 5.94 [48] | 1.5/5 [48] |
223 | 8 | "Week 8: Hometowns" | February 19, 2018 [lower-alpha 2] | 2208 | 6.27 [49] | 1.7/6 [49] |
224 | 9 | "The Women Tell All" | February 25, 2018 | N/A | 4.26 [50] | 1.1/4 [50] |
225 | 10 | "Week 9: Fantasy Suites" | February 26, 2018 | 2209 | 6.57 [51] | 1.8/7 [51] |
226 | 11 | "Week 10: Season Finale" | March 5, 2018 | 2210 | 7.94 [52] | 2.2/8 [52] |
227 | 12 | "After the Final Rose" | March 6, 2018 | N/A | 7.77 [53] | 2.2/8 [53] |
During the live season finale, it was revealed that a few weeks after filming wrapped, Arie had quickly called off his engagement to Becca and started dating runner-up Lauren.
Arie and Lauren got engaged during the After the Final Rose special. Arie and Lauren got married on January 12, 2019. They have three children together, Alessi Ren (born May 29, 2019), and twins, Lux Jacob and Senna James (born June 11, 2021).
Becca got engaged to Thomas Jacobs, who was a contestant on season 17 of The Bachelorette, in May 2022.
Bekah Martinez was reported missing by her mother during the filming of this season. Her mother tried to claim that Martinez informed her she was working on a marijuana farm instead of being on national television and filed the missing person's report on November 18, 2017. Authorities from Humboldt County Sheriff's Department tried to locate and reach her but their attempts were unsuccessful. That very same day, Martinez eventually went home and remained on the missing person's list. Her mother reported her missing, but ended up discovering that Martinez was indeed not missing. [54]
In the aftermath of the season, Minnesota House of Representatives member Drew Christensen signed a document bill to ban Luyendyk to prevent travel from or to Minnesota, Becca Kufrin's home state. As stated on the document "the state of Minnesota hereby adopts a policy of zero tolerance of Arie Luyendyk, Jr. from season 22 of ‘The Bachelor.’ It is state policy that every person in the state has a right to live free from the presence of Arie Luyendyk, Jr. in the state." [55]
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